Alan Moorehead was lionised as the literary man of action: the most celebrated war correspondent of World War II; author of award winning books; star travel writer of The New Yorker; pioneer publicist of wildlife conservation. At the height of his success, his writing suddenly stopped and when, 17 years later, his death was announced, he seemed a heroic figure from the past. His fame as a writer gave him the friendship of Ernest Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw and Field Marshall Montgomery and the courtship and marriage of his beautiful wife Lucy Milner. After 1945, he turned to writing books, including Eclipse, Gallipoli (for which he won the Duff Cooper Prize), The White Nile, The Blue Nile, and finally, A Late Education. He was awarded an OBE in 1946, and died in 1983.
He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 1946 and the CBE in 1968 for his services to literature.
He was awarded the A.O. (Officer of the Order of Australia) in the 1978 Queens Birthday Honours List for his services to Literature.
(January 2009) Porto Ercole, Grosseto, Italy
